Oregon
Oregon ballot fiasco delays House election results
1000’s of ballots with blurry barcodes that may’t be learn by vote-counting machines will delay outcomes by weeks in a key U.S. Home race in Oregon’s main election, a surprising improvement that’s giving a black eye to a vote-by-mail pioneer state with a nationwide status as a pacesetter on voter entry and fairness. The fiasco impacts as much as 60,000 ballots, or two-thirds of the roughly 90,000 returned to this point in Oregon’s third-largest county. A whole lot of ballots have been nonetheless coming in below a brand new regulation that permits them to be counted so long as they’re postmarked by Election Day, and 200 Clackamas County staff have been getting a crash course Thursday in vote-counting after being redeployed to deal with the disaster.